It looks like we may be making some progress here. I do agree with most of what is in the past few posts. Statements like "we can get away with more flying a model" And " Can't break a R/C helicopter while in the air " and " we fly our models by sight" all true statements. My thing was to point out that according to some of the verb-age here it would seem that the " Correct " way to counter a cross wind is establish a crab angle at one end of the field and then neutralize rudder and ride the strait line from one end to the other. Mathematically that may work But not in reality where the wind is not a constant and because we fly close to the ground there is more turbulence. From a competition pilot standpoint coming out of a maneuver yawed 5 degrees one way or another is going to be a downgrade. As far as teaching the " Correct " way to do things as we do it in full scale IMO is limiting that your students potential. Simply put, when we are talking about models there just aren't any rules or at least shouldn't be. IMO we should be encouraging each other to push the envelope and think outside the box not start a post with " That's not correct " or " That's just wrong " Again my opinion but to me that just implies an absolute and I just don't believe in absolutes when it comes to R/C. There are multiple ways to do the same things in just about every case, I don't think I have accused you guys of flying incorrectly can you guys say the same?

Now one of the examples given was slope soaring and being able to not have the wind slam you into the slope by always flying with the nose pointed away from the slope. Yes this is correct and yes you can accomplish this by making your turns less then 180 degrees but again this requires constant maintenance, its not a one shot deal and it's not the only way to do it. Most of my time on the slope had been slope racing or just practicing speed flying with an F3B sailplane. Again I would correct for drift with rudder. Even on my pylon airplanes id I happen to be out of position and need to move in or out on the course I do so with rudder. My point throughout this whole thread is that because we are flying models we need not confine ourselves with hard full scale principals, nobody is going to die or get sick if we are flying our models differently then full scale.

Jperrone, The airplane I pictured is a stand a mile off scale of an Italian Macchi 202 Folgore. It is of my own design and scratch built. if you would like more information I have a build thread of sorts in the Scale Racing forum titled: 2014 race season. Thought I would post another pic so you can better see the planform.

Rob, yes flying helicopters is a different ball game but I find the challenge fun. I haven't picked up a heli in a really long time but Used to be a fair pilot.